The Blackburn Rovers Chronicle
Market24 Jan 2028
Ryan Alebiosu asks to leave Blackburn Rovers
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Match22 Jan 2028
The wait goes on for Blackburn Rovers
4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad24 Jan 2028
Tempers go at Blackburn Rovers
Oladapo Afolayan was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Market24 Jan 2028
Mark Parker steps up from the Blackburn Rovers academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Mark Parker has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market24 Jan 2028
One of our own: Daniel Spencer joins the Blackburn Rovers first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Daniel Spencer is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market24 Jan 2028
One of our own: James Mitchell joins the Blackburn Rovers first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. James Mitchell is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad24 Jan 2028
Hayden Carter falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad24 Jan 2028
Blackburn Rovers pick somebody else ahead of Sam Morsy
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
Squad24 Jan 2028
Blackburn Rovers keep their word to Moussa Baradji
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
In brief
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Augustus Kargbo
- Match Blackburn Rovers draw a blank against West Bromwich Albion
- Boardroom The Blackburn Rovers production line keeps running